10 Stupid Comic Book Movie Deaths That Should Never Have Happened

10. Ares (Wonder Woman)

2017's Wonder Woman wasn't just the combo breaker that shattered Warner Brothers' losing streak of superhero films, wasn't just a cultural phenomenon that encouraged and inspired women the world over, it was also a pretty good film. For the first two acts, anyway.

Things fell apart in a big way in the film's climax. The pacing got wonky, the dialogue got hokey, and the action beats were muddled by poor visual effects. And no effect was more glaring than poor David Thewlis as Ares, the god of war and Wonder Woman's sworn enemy who she'd been hunting for the entire film. Not only did he look ugly and encumbered in his fake CGI armor, but director Patty Jenkins made the interesting creative choice to have his moustache visible and prominent under his helmet.

Killing him off should have been more like putting him out of his misery, given the circumstances, but it is firmly established that Ares is the last Olympian god left, meaning that Diana had wiped out the last and only chance of the Greek gods appearing in the DC Extended Universe. That was a mistake.

To add insult to injury, eagle-eyed fans discovered that the native american smuggler Chief was actually the Blackfoot spirit Napi. As a fellow demigod who's pantheon had already been extinguished by colonists, Chief's death would have been much more impactful and symbolic.